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2013/03/29

SmartPlanet: China to boast world’s most advanced internet

China to boast world’s most advanced internet An analysis, conducted earlier this year, showed that Hong Kong boasted the world’s fastest internet speeds. But right outside its borders, an economic beast is building a newer version so powerful and efficient, that it’s expected to surpass anything currently being used in the west. With a population …

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2013/03/272021/01/27

21 Graphic Depictions of US Health Costs Compared to Other Nations + Health Fraud RECAP

21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous Every year, the International Federation of Health Plans — a global insurance trade association that includes more than 100 insurers in 25 countries — releases survey data showing the prices that insurers are actually paying for different drugs, devices, and medical services in different countries. And every …

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2013/03/232013/03/26

Winslow Wheeler: GAO (A Legislative Entity) Plays Courtesan to Lockheed, DoD, and the Congressional Recipients of Lockheed Largesse + F-35 RECAP

DOD is circling the wagons to keep the F-35 propped up in the declining Pentagon budget. Importantly, as noted by a prime Lockheed mouthpiece offering his thankfulness for it, GAO’s newest report on the F-35 offers a conclusion that the F-35 is on track for improvement–the data notwithstanding. In point of fact, what the GAO conclusion …

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2013/03/212013/03/24

Review: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Doug Rushkoff 5.0 out of 5 stars Rich Manifesto for Humanity — Hit Pause, Do NOT Let IT Fry Your Brain, March 21, 2013 In some ways this book picks up from Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway but it has its own structure …

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2013/03/192013/03/26

Steve Aftergood: Drake Classification Complaint Dismissed and Court Severely Critical of Executive Over-Classification, Arbitrary Classification, and Lack of Accountability for Same

CLASSIFICATION COMPLAINT ARISING FROM THOMAS DRAKE CASE DISMISSED In July 2011, J. William Leonard, a former director of the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), took the extraordinary step of filing a formal complaint with the Office he once led charging that a document used to indict former NSA official Thomas Drake under the Espionage Act …

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2013/03/132013/03/26

Michel Bauwens: Spanish P2P WIkispring on March 20

The Spanish P2P Wikisprint on March 20 Next Wednesday, March 20, a fascinating new stage in transnational cooperation will arrive when scores of commoners in twenty countries take part in a Spanish P2P Wikisprint, a coordinated effort to document and map the myriad peer to peer initiatives that exist in Latin America and Spain. The …

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2013/03/112013/03/26

Paul Craig Roberts: Government Lies on Unemployment — New Book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West

Phi Beta Iota: In one sentence: unemployment is 23% (40% among recent college graduates and those well past mid-career); inflation is 9.1%. Staring Armageddon In The Face But Hiding It With Official Lies According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy created 236,000 new jobs in February. If you believe that, I have …

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